NY chicken lover!!!!

[rancher hicks]

It was great to get home from Long Island and hear my rooster core to wake me, and see all the chickies. DH did a fine job of caring for everyone, but on the last day he reported a jailbreak. He had not secured the gate, and the girls pushed it open, he believes they were avoiding Reveille...All survived a morning of free ranging and were back in their yard when he came home for lunch. Now we have duckboards leading to the coop so neither of us will slip on the clay soil...gotta sayI have done that, soma happy for the improvement. Maybe I should go away more often.
I drove an Emergency Response Vehicle while on LI, our base area was at Aquaduct and sometimes we could see jockeys and horses on the track. Driving those big ERVS was challenging, especially taking into account the mindset of the local drivers. Also went on crowded streets in Brooklyn, and out by Far Rockaway, once to Breezy Point, but just the Western section. Lots of work is going on to get back to normal, but it will take some time.
Didn't see any chickens, other than the meals we served, but found a great chicken childrens book. Beautiful Yetta, the Yiddish Chicken by Daniel Pinkwater. It looks like he may have a couple of other chicken books, will have to check the library. Yetta speaks Yiddish, and the parrots speak Spanish, so it's a multicultural book...
Sorry for all the predator losses, and am praying for Tab and family. Lots has happened while I was away from computers, it took two days to catch up!

Gotta look this one up. I like to buy chicken books for the GK's.

Looking for Bobowicz: A Hoboken Chicken


The Hoboken Chicken Emergency


Didn't find the one you mentioned but ordered the other two.​

Anyone got Tabs address? Can you pm me if you do? I've looked all through my pm's but can't find it. Want to send her a card. Figure things are bad since she hasn't been on. PM's her for it but she's not responding.

 

[Lynzi777]

Clean out was successful! Pearl is a new clean box, and back to sitting on the eggs. Even got a chance to clean them all up. Candled them again before putting them back. Turns out she was sitting on 6 this whole time, not 5. However one was empty so I removed it from the group. Back to the 5 - they look like they're at all different stages as far as growing goes. One even looks like it's at day 18 or so in comparison to some other eggs I googled pictures of. So I'll be curious as to how early the 1st egg will hatch - again, if it hatches! Another one looked like it was only on day 10 or 11 and another on day 13. I can't wait to see what happens.

 

[JayinCohoes]

Evening all. Just watched a really good documentary on netflix called Farmageddon. Its about what the government is doing to small farmers and our ability to choose what we eat and where we buy it from. Joel Salatin is one of the farmers interviewed. It made me sick to see what happened to some of these people at the hands of the FDA, USDA and various other agencies. I highly recommend watching it since we could be considered "farmers" ourselves and subject to the same threats, intimidations and outright seizures of our animals.

Freezing rain alert for tomorrow. Hope its gone by the time I have to go pick up my daughter from the airport. Be safe and well everyone.

Pyxis--dont feel bad. In my book, if it tries to eat my chickens, it signed a death warrant.

Thanks so much for posting about Farmageddon. I just finished watching the documentary and I'll pass it on to others as well. Great movie.

 

[java girl 2]

Quote: where can one get this? hopfuly a store as I don't order stuff online right now.

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

Javagirl2--It is a documentary currently airing on netflix. It is very good and I highly recommend it. You could try your local video store to rent it if you have one.

Jay--glad you watched it. My heart broke for the family in vermont who had all their sheep taken for no reason and destroyed. To be subjected to the kinds of mistreatment by local, state and federal agencies appalled me to no end.

My baby girl is home! So nice to have her home. She cant wait to see the cheeps since they were very little when she left this summer. I looked up that Nucote that everyone was talking about. It seems to be a good product, however, do not use it if you have sulfa allergies. One of the three ingredients is sulfa and for those of us with sulfa allergies (like me), it can have serious consequences. Since I dont have a death wish, I will not be adding this to my first aid box. However, it got great reviews from those people who used it. Off to another long day of work tomorrow.

 

[vmdanielsen]

It was great to get home from Long Island and hear my rooster core to wake me, and see all the chickies. DH did a fine job of caring for everyone, but on the last day he reported a jailbreak. He had not secured the gate, and the girls pushed it open, he believes they were avoiding Reveille...All survived a morning of free ranging and were back in their yard when he came home for lunch. Now we have duckboards leading to the coop so neither of us will slip on the clay soil...gotta sayI have done that, soma happy for the improvement. Maybe I should go away more often.
I drove an Emergency Response Vehicle while on LI, our base area was at Aquaduct and sometimes we could see jockeys and horses on the track. Driving those big ERVS was challenging, especially taking into account the mindset of the local drivers. Also went on crowded streets in Brooklyn, and out by Far Rockaway, once to Breezy Point, but just the Western section. Lots of work is going on to get back to normal, but it will take some time.
Didn't see any chickens, other than the meals we served, but found a great chicken childrens book. Beautiful Yetta, the Yiddish Chicken by Daniel Pinkwater. It looks like he may have a couple of other chicken books, will have to check the library. Yetta speaks Yiddish, and the parrots speak Spanish, so it's a multicultural book...
Sorry for all the predator losses, and am praying for Tab and family. Lots has happened while I was away from computers, it took two days to catch up!

Glass Good to have you back!! Did you get to meet anyone on the Southern Ny thread? I hope you had very satisfying time!!

 

[Lapeerian]

http://snappytots.blogspot.com/2012/12/beanies-for-brave-students.html?m=1
For Rancher or any other crafty people out there, Tina in Southern NY posted this. I don't know how to knit or crochet, maybe it is time I learn.
Time to search my closet to find something green & white to wear. Good day all!

 

[Glasshen]

No, Ginny, I didn't get a chance to connect with anyone, except some of the people at my feeding locations, and only briefly. Our days were very long, we were on the road to Aquaduct where our base was by 7, had breakfast there, cooked by the NC Baptist Men, great stick to your ribs food, with grits every morning, then morning meeting at 8:30. Then there was time to clean up the ERV,wash the floor and arrange the supplies, take inventory etc, and wait to be called to pick up our food for the day. We carried bottled water, and snacks, lots of chips, sometimes fruit cups, Graham crackers and stuff like that. When we were called we would drive near the cooking tent to pick up our insulated containers of hot food. They would keep the food good and hot until late afternoon if they were closed when not actively serving. Then we would rumble off to our location and serve hot meals as long as they lasted, and snacks alone after that. Then back to Aquaduct to throw out our garbage, broken down boxes etc, and our dirty cambros...that is a phonetic spelling, so they could be washed and ready for the next day, then back to where we were staying. At first we were assigned to a staff shelter in SUNY Old Westbury, about an hour from Aquaduct. After a while we were given hotel rooms closer, which cut down the length of our work day by about an hour. The latest I finished was 9:30, and lights off was 10:00, the earliest was around 4:30. Very long days. Mostly I was done around 6.

Since our lodging was uncertain, I only brought my phone, not wanting to chance loosing a camera or iPad., the last day at the hotel near JFK I found there was a business room with some computers I could use for free, so I was pretty much in computer withdrawal. We travelled on Nov 30 and Dec 14, had orientation and computer training...defensive driving and food safety on Dec 1 and 2, then worked all but one day which we were given as our day off. Lots of work, but I was glad to do my small part to help people get back on their feet. A hot meal does a lot when things are bad.

Would have loved to see some people Ive met here, but it would have been really hard to arrange, and there was very little time to even talk...think of a cafeteria lady when we were on our location. It was a very good experience, though and I'll do it again if I'm needed in the future.

Sandy is an even larger disaster than Katrina, they say...

 

[vmdanielsen]

No, Ginny, I didn't get a chance to connect with anyone, except some of the people at my feeding locations, and only briefly. Our days were very long, we were on the road to Aquaduct where our base was by 7, had breakfast there, cooked by the NC Baptist Men, great stick to your ribs food, with grits every morning, then morning meeting at 8:30. Then there was time to clean up the ERV,wash the floor and arrange the supplies, take inventory etc, and wait to be called to pick up our food for the day. We carried bottled water, and snacks, lots of chips, sometimes fruit cups, Graham crackers and stuff like that. When we were called we would drive near the cooking tent to pick up our insulated containers of hot food. They would keep the food good and hot until late afternoon if they were closed when not actively serving. Then we would rumble off to our location and serve hot meals as long as they lasted, and snacks alone after that. Then back to Aquaduct to throw out our garbage, broken down boxes etc, and our dirty cambros...that is a phonetic spelling, so they could be washed and ready for the next day, then back to where we were staying. At first we were assigned to a staff shelter in SUNY Old Westbury, about an hour from Aquaduct. After a while we were given hotel rooms closer, which cut down the length of our work day by about an hour. The latest I finished was 9:30, and lights off was 10:00, the earliest was around 4:30. Very long days. Mostly I was done around 6.
Since our lodging was uncertain, I only brought my phone, not wanting to chance loosing a camera or iPad., the last day at the hotel near JFK I found there was a business room with some computers I could use for free, so I was pretty much in computer withdrawal. We travelled on Nov 30 and Dec 14, had orientation and computer training...defensive driving and food safety on Dec 1 and 2, then worked all but one day which we were given as our day off. Lots of work, but I was glad to do my small part to help people get back on their feet. A hot meal does a lot when things are bad.
Would have loved to see some people Ive met here, but it would have been really hard to arrange, and there was very little time to even talk...think of a cafeteria lady when we were on our location. It was a very good experience, though and I'll do it again if I'm needed in the future.
Sandy is an even larger disaster than Katrina, they say...

Well done Glass!!

 

[Lynzi777]

Good Morning
I had my first predator attack this morning.

My husband was leaving for work and as he walked outside a hawk flew down and tried to pick up my lavender orpington hen. Luckily he did not succeed and the hen ran into the coop. There were feathers all over my lawn, I went out there to check on her and she didn't seem too badly injured. Some blood near her head but she's not missing any eyes, thank god. I think she'll recover. However, I do not see my son's orpington "Golden Star" out there anywhere. I'm hoping and praying she just took off into the woods or something and is hiding. No feather traces from her. I hope I can find her before he comes home from school today. He will be devastated.